/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15984893

Here's a chart of seconds elapsed for each of the major mechanical events of the Apollo missions, allowing comparison of all of them. What you're looking at is number of seconds that each configuration was in flight. The various stages (and configurations) of the rocket are in flight for a few minutes at the start, then other configurations run for several minutes, or hours dependinging on which one you're looking at.

Throughout the Apollo program, Apollo 11 had the shortest LM flight time from the time of undocking until lunar touchdown. They were all business and their main focus was to simply stick their landing, get it done and go home. However, Apollo 11 also had the LONGEST flight time from the surface of the Moon BACK to the CSM hurtling through lunar orbit , at 13260 seconds (you do the conversion). Apollo 14 was like half that for that phase of their mission.

Orloff, "Apollo by the Numbers" is an excellent statistical resource OP.